Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
THE RAILROADS.
Fort Worthians Projecting Line to
Plano and Sulphur Springs or
GreeRYille via Grapevine.
Tho Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Wants to Gross the Indian Territory.
Home Notes.



1t comes very straight from both Bon
ham and Mckinney that CitiZ ms of these
places have held several conferences il
regard ID the line from Fort Worth 10
Arthur City through the two cities
named. Il is stated prominent citizen
of BOnh2m named Robinson is at work
in the matter, and that correspondence
with Fort Worth parties has been had.
. A gentleman who arrived in Fort Worth
from GTanbary yesterday says that rot
over five miles of grading remains to be
done between Granbury and this city.
He says also that the work on the bridge
piers is making rapid progress and that
it is stated in Gran0ury Us fact beyond
question that before February the track
layers will be at work. Granbufy, he
reports, is on 3 healthy boom and the
citizens Gnd merchants very eager to be
connected with Fort Worth by the road so
far toward completion.
Jack Hurley, the well known railroad
contractor, lett Yesterday morning for
Quanah TO take a sub-coatract on the
Fort Worth and Denver extension. Men
and teams are crowdiug into the Pan
handle, and the 200 miles of extension,
which will doubtless be met by the Den
yer, Texas aad Gulf at the Canadian and
give Fort Worth trunk line to Denver,
will from present indications be complet-
ed before 1855 comes.
Mr.. K b. Welcb, a prominent citizen
OF Topeka and connected with the South
ern Kansas of Texas, the initial point of
VIII Oh is Fort Worth, is in the city on
business nnected with the road.
While MIR. Walsh is a very courteous
gentleman, disposed to give all Informs
ton in his power, he says 1t would be
manifestly improper for him to dis cuss
or divulge the plans of the company he
Is connected with. Fort Worth must
only wait and in short time all will be
MADE plain to her. Mr.. WEIGH has be-
come acquainted with a number of our
citizens and likes Fort Worth very
much.
Citizens of Fort Worth are now agitat-
ing the formation of company to con-
struct line Of railroad from Fort Worth
to Grapevine and Piano, and from there
to either Sulphur Springs or Greenville,
to q connection with the roads which pen
citrate the pineries and which would ena-
bic Us to obtain lumber at the cheapest
possible rates. It needs no exposition tc
inform our citizens of the great fertility
CT thu country that would be traversed by
this line, for il is notorious that the coun-
ties of Tarrant, G. lin ard Hunt are three
of the richest in the state. Again, this
road would place our merchants in commu-
nicstion with a trade of which Fort Worth
at present knows little or nothing and
the merchants throughout the section
mentioned are said to greatly desire
EnyTW hn
teirg fully in hand there shoult be no
abatement of the efforts TO consummate
the plans set forth. Fort Worth needs
vile for the local trade it would bring
and also for the valuable railway connec-
tions it would give US to the pineries.
Mr. T. T. D. Andrews of this city was
by Globe-Democrst report
er in st. Louis q few days ago, and is
quoted IS follows:
Speaking of Fort Worth, Mr.. Andrews |
said: "The city and section were never |
in better condition. Everything is |
and thriving, aud | look for |
still greater prosperity in the near future. |
have been in progress with |
the St. Louis ard San Francisco Railroad, |
with view of inducing them to extend |
their line from Paris to Fort Worth.
These negotiations have il all probability
been successful, and l expect to see work
commence within sholt time. This
extension means the opening up of a
country as rich as Illinois and an enor-
nous increase in the available product
iveness of that section of the country.
You il st. Louis are as much interested /
in our prosperity as we ourselves are, for
increased wealth in Texas means in
creased trade with ST. Louis, which is our
supply point. Both sections of
5he country are inter-dependent, and the
growth of Texas, now SO rapid, means an
even more rapid growth in st. Louis"